The latest development on the site has increased the length of the affected area. Luckily, however, there was no casualty.
“No one has gone missing so far,” the DCO, Hyderabad, Mir Hussain Ali confirmed.
The district Nazim, Dr Makhdoom Rafiq-uz-Zaman said that the secretary, Irrigation, did not bother to visit the site even on Tuesday.
He said that he had complained to the Sindh governor that the secretary did not visit the spot.
The size of the breach has been widened because of winds and the pressure of water.
Although the supply was closed from the Rohri Canal at Sukkur Barrage yet the water that has been released from the barrage is travelling and reaching the site of the breach worsening it further.
During a visit to the area it was found that at least 100 feet of the Khando-Tando Adam link road had been washed away on Monday night because of the pressure of water. As a result, the direction of the flowing water has changed and it was heading towards the villages on the other side of the main spot of the breach in the Rohri Canal.
Now the road has been closed for all practical purposes. The water continued to cause fissures and cracks in the road.
The villages that were likely to be affected now included Hamzo Majeedano, Meenho Sahowal, Agham Wasan, Sobdar Lashari, and Faqir Ghulam Mohammed Nohphoto.
People continued to shift their families to relatively safer places. Many were seen present on the embankment watching the flow of water.
The other side of the link road at the Punhoon Sahowal village, which connects it with the National Highway has also been submerged under water.
The number of affected villages has reached 35, whereas 7,000 more people have been affected.
Two more relief camps have been established in Bhitshah.
The pace of work on the plugging of the breach remained very slow. It was only due to the involvement and supervision of army officials that efforts to plug the breach were geared up.
An army official confided that the irrigation authorities failed to come up to the expectation.
The army officials provided six boats, dumpers, and bulldozers to collect earth for pitching work.
Colonel Afzal Cheema of the district support team of the army is personally supervising the entire operation along with a good number of soldiers. The number of divers had also increased.
The people seem to be frustrated as the irrigation authorities virtually failed to plug the breach.
The Nazim, Union Council Bhitshah, Raza Shah, told this correspondent at the Bhitshah rest house that 50,000 people would block the main National Highway in case the breach was not plugged soon and the pace of relief work was not accelerated.
The district Nazim, Dr Makhdoom Rafiq-uz-Zaman, said that communication between the authorities concerned remained the main problem.
He has asked the DPO, Hyderabad, A. D. Khwaja to provide at least five wireless sets with operators to ensure better communication.
The Sindh minister for irrigation, Aijaz Shah Sheerazi, visited the site on Tuesday evening and directed the officials to accelerate the pace of work.